July 10, 2006

A Voluble Visit with Two Talking Apes - This was a great NPR Weekend Edition show that played on Saturday about a pair of "talking" bonobos at Iowa's Great Ape Trust. "Kanzi's favorite movies when he was very young were Ice Man and Planet of the Apes," Savage-Rumbaugh says. "I guess his favorite movie of all time is Quest for Fire."
posted by JJ86 18 years ago
  • Irony upon irony.
  • I wonder if he's seen 2001?
  • We extinguish their only living wild relatives, and keep these few alive in captivity so we can teach them to watch crap movies, and then we argue about whether they're as intelligent as we are... On a scale of pass to fail, methinks that would be a big 'fail' for the human race.
  • More intelligent than some humans, at least one of them wasn't Top Gun or that Mel Gibson horror.
  • Signs? Methinks that would be Koko the gorilla's favourite.
  • No, she's actually a big fan of, what she calls Big Big Bannana Go Car Now Kitty Pie Playground Koko Love Koko Love Bannana. Which, of course, translates to Project X.
  • Having lived here most of my life I can assure you that Iowa is full of talking apes. /can i have my bannanna now?
  • Iowa?? Huh.
  • we can teach them to watch crap movies, and then we argue about whether they're as intelligent as we are... On a scale of pass to fail, methinks that would be a big 'fail' for the human race.
    I don't think they would understand the intricacies of "Ikiru" or "400 Blows".
  • Big Big Bannana Go Car Now Kitty Pie Playground Koko Love Koko Love Bannana Nick, that is very, very funny.